Mathias ludlum



titled tant @anni @tithe MATHIAs LUDLUM, or WILLISTON, VERMONT.

Letters Patent No. 100,300, dated March 1, 1870.A

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOWER-POTS.

The Schedule referred to 1n'. these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

`the plants, with the earth enveloping the roots, 'may he more readily transplanted, and an improvement in form calculated to give greater room for the roots.

Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of my improved flower-pot, and

Figure 2 represents a plan of the bottom of the Same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Hitherto these ower-pots have necessarily been' made larger at the topthan, at the bottom, for the purpose of removing the earth with the. plants, in transplanting. This shape4 is not well adapted to the natural requirements of the plants, for the roots expand as they grow downward, requiring greater breadth at or toward the bottom, which cannot be had if the plants are to be removed at the top in the common way. have, therefore, provided iowerfpots of iucreasing diameter toward the bottom, and have made the bottoms removable, as follows, wherebyI not only adapt the pots more perfectly to the natural requirements of the plants, but greatly Vfacilitate the removal ot the same in transplanting.

rlhe cylindrical or tubular parts A of the pots, which are made without bottoms and larger at the base than at the top, a're provided, a short distance above the base, inside thereof, with lugs B, preferably three in number, having shoulders at the upper ends, and all in the same horizontal plane, and the bottom O made in the form ot' their circular disks, of the same diameter as the internal diameter of the parts A.

Above, these lugs are provided with corresponding clefts, D, so that, by adjusting theclefts to coincide with the projections, the bottoms may be inserted above the said projections, and be turned around, moving the clefts away from the projections, whereby the bottoms will be retained.

A stop, E, may be placed on the bottom, to arrest the turning of the bottom when the clefts are about eqnidistant between the projections.

The opening at the edge of bottom admits air freely to the roots' of the plants.

For removing the plants,- the pots may he held slightly above the ground in one hand, andthe bottoms turned by the other, so that they and the contents will readily fall out in a wayrmuch less injurious tothe plants than the -commonway of turning the plants and the earth bottom up, or nearly so, vinto the hand.

The mode of fastening the bottoms may be varied, and I do not confine myself to the precise mode herein shown.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to 'secure by Letters Patent, is-

A ower-pot provided with a removable bottom,

Ahaving the recesses D and stop E, and the shouldered legs B, as shown and described.

The above speciiication of my invention signed by me this 6th day ot' August, 1869.

M. LUDLUM.

Witnesses:

W. N. MURRAY, GEO. MoRToN. 

